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Mount Tabor, Palestine, 



April (H. B. T.). 

 Palestine, 1st April {B. B. T.). 

 Palestine, 17th April (H. B. T.). 

 Palestine, 20th May (H. B. T.). 

 Palestine, 16th April (/. H. 



Cochrane). 

 Palestine, May {J. S. C). 

 Palestine (i/. B. Tristram). 

 Palestine {H. B. T.). 

 Palestine, 16th March (H. B. T.). 

 Palestine, 16th April (H. B. T.). 

 Tiberias, Palestine (H. B. T.). 

 Gennesaret, Palestine, 30th March 



(H. B. T.). 

 Gennesaret, 30th March (H. B. T. 



16th Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm 

 Crowley 

 Crowley 

 Crowley 

 Crowley 

 Crowley 

 Crowley 



Coll. 

 Bequest. 

 Bequest. 

 Bequest. 

 Bequest. 

 Bequest. 

 Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Laniiis lahtora (Si/lces). 



Lanius lahtora. Dresser, Birds Eur. iii. p. 381 (1872) ; Gadmv, Cat. 

 Birds B. M. viii. p. 252 (1883) ; Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. 

 p. 459 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests 8f Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 306 

 (1889) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 281 (1903). 



The eggs of the Indian Grey Shrike show much variation in 

 shape, size, colour, and extent and disposition of markings, but the 

 majority do not differ from the eggs of L. exeuhitor. The ground 

 is cream-colour, stone-colour, or pale greenish white, and the 

 markings are of many shades of brown, tinged with yellow, rufous 

 or olive, and underlying pale purple. In many specimens the 

 markings consist of blotches chiefly disposed over the larger end 

 and frequently forming an irregular zone or cap ; in others they 

 consist of mere spots and specks, spread over the entire shell, but 

 more thickly over the larger half than elsewhere. They vary 

 from "9 to 1-15 in length, and from "75 to "82 in breadth. 



